Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit which it has lost as salon art. Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.
Art itself cannot be taught, but craftsmanship can. Architects, painters, sculptors are all craftsmen in the original sense of the word. Thus it is a… - Walter Gropius
Art itself cannot be taught, but craftsmanship can. Architects, painters, sculptors are all craftsmen in the original sense of the word. Thus it is a…
- Walter Gropius
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary f… - Walter Gropius
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary f…
Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning. - Walter Gropius
Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
The mind is like an umbrella. Its most useful when open. - Walter Gropius
The mind is like an umbrella. Its most useful when open.
We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation. - Walter Gropius
We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation.
The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The artist is a height… - Walter Gropius
The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The artist is a height…
The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism - Walter Gropius
The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism
Limitation makes the creative mind inventive. - Walter Gropius
Limitation makes the creative mind inventive.
A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy. - Walter Gropius
A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.
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